[umbagi]

I'd venture that most of you ladies are, like SoldiersGirl and Mrs. U, much more diligent about "maintenance" (the gym and the treadmill) than we guys are...

Much kudos to you all -- we love you!

[Air Force Born]

Gym? Treadmill? I think I've heard tell of such. They weree on some horror show I saw once, I think.

[Carolina]

This is a love palace? I've got better at home

This was one of the innermost sanctums of the Saddam regime — a pink chiffon hideaway where the dictator’s playboy son Uday appears to have entertained his numerous, defenceless, sexual “conquests”.

Two minutes south along the Tigris from Saddam’s giant Republican Palace, the sight of Arabian nights minarets, heart-shaped pillows and a swimming pool with in-pool bar are the first indications that this is no ordinary Hussein family residence. As a symbol of excess deposed, it cannot be bettered.

The gilt-edged glass goblets with which the voracious Uday once tempted young girls now lie shattered by an American shell that has ripped the heart out of the pleasure dome.

[Mo1]

HA! .. I use to have time but as the years past and the kiddies came .. I'm lucky if I have time to think straight .. plus my mother has Alzheimer's which tends to up even more of my time ..